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Book pick: "Cooked," by Michael Pollan

Kerri's book pick this week is "Cooked," the latest from science writer Michael Pollan. It's part history, part how-to, and part a call for Americans to pick up spatulas and mandolines.

"'Cooked' underscores that it has become too easy to unwrap, microwave, order in or otherwise dodge cooking chores — to the point where at-home food preparation skills are simply being lost," wrote Janet Maslin in The New York Times. "It is not encouraging to hear Harry Balzer, a food industry market researcher, tell Mr. Pollan that much of what people now call 'cooking' would have grandmothers spinning in their graves."